Autographic register



5 Sheets-Sheet 1 @am l, i935. F, G. DIESBACH AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER Flled Feb 24, 1953 NdmeofGuest O O I GQAND HOTEL Date NameoGueSt Time Name ofGuest INVENTOR GRAND HOTEL ATTORNEYS @da El, M35., F. G. DIESBACH AUTOGRAFHIC REGISTER Filed Feb. 24, 1953 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR ATTORNEYS f n". @vlo L M595- F. G. DIESBACH AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 Filed Feb. 24, 1935 ATTO RN EYS Patented Oct. 1, 1935 UNITED STATES FATENT OFFICE AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER Application February 24, 1933, serial No. 658,329

4 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in autographic registers or manifolding machines, dealing with a continuous strip in one or a plural number, fed from a supply compartment upon a writing table or platen and withdrawn therefrom in determined sheet lengths which `are severed or torn from the strip. The strips* generally contain printed blank forms as sales strips. with apertures usually in the spacing between the forms,

to serve as filing holes, for each form length after issuing from the machine and torn or severed from the strip and as indexes for the strips While Within the machine limiting the withdrawal either manually or mechanically to definite and measured sheet lengths; for aligning or registering the printed form matter of the several strips upon the writing table and avoiding the possibility of the manifold strips creeping on one another or to disturb their registry with the uppermost strip and also as in the present invention, for making a positive connection With the strips for administering a mechanical pull out or feeding advance of the strips or project the ends thereof from the machine for manual grasp so that the pull out or 2f advance can be continued manually for a length determined by the aperture spacing longitudinally of the strip.

An object of the invention is to provide means for mechanically advancing a plurality of strips to project an end thereof from the machine for hand grasp to manually continue the Withdrawal for a determined or measured length with one of the strips of the series coordinately with the withdrawal of the others fed into a record compartment Within the casing of the machine.

Other features and advantages of the invention Will be more fully set forth in the description of the drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved autographic register or manifolding machine as charged with sales strips with part of the machine frame at one end of the machine, broken away to expose parts that would be hidden thereby; likewise the cover for the opposite end of the machine is shown as swung back to illustrate the record strip deposited within a record compartment of the machine.

Figure 2 is a central longitudinal section through the machine.

Figure 3 is a .section on line 3--3, Figure 1. Figure 4 is a section on line ll-ll, Figure 1. Figure 5 is a fragmentary perspective view of the mid portion of the machine showing a shifting lever operated for advancing the strips and extracting the same sufficiently to be grasped by the hands of the operator for further or continued Withdrawal, the lever being shown in an intermediate position suflicient for advancing the strips for hand grasp.

Figure 6 is a vertical section similar to Fig- 5 ure 4 showing the parts in position at the end of a paper feeding stroke.

Figure 7 is a section similar to Figure 4 illustrating the parts in another stage of operation.

Figure 8 is a fragmentary plan View of the mid 10 portion of the machine with the margin frame removed, illustrating the relative positions between the writing table and sheet or strip feeding incohanism.

Figure 9 is a side elevation of the strip extrac- 15 tor mechanism and division wall with certain portions of the strip extractor mechanism being broken away to illustrate the parts in rear thereof.

Figure 10 is a vertical section on line l--I, 20 Figure 9.

Figure ll is a section on line ll-l l, Figure 9.

Figure l2 is a section on line l2-l2, Figure 9.

Figure 13 is a section on line lil-i3, Figure 3.

Figure 14 is a perspective view of the rock plate 25 with slide plate removed, viewed from division Wall side.

Figure l5 is a perspective view of the slide plate looking substantially from the record compartment side thereof. 30

The present improvement is characteristic to a type of manifolding machine shown and described in Letters Patent No. 1,333,082, to A. Krauth, dated March 9, 1920, employing a hinge or swinging leaf member carrying depressible pins 35 or detents engageable respectively with registering apertures in the web or strip operated upon for withholding the same against displacement upon a writing table of the machine and for relative registration and alignment of several webs 40 or strips in superposed arrangement.

The pins in their engagement through the aperture of the paper also serve as means for moving or advancing the strip or strips to withdraw the same sufficiently to be grasped by the 45 hand of the operator for continued withdrawal for a determined or measured length governed by the aperture spacing in the sheet with which the pins or detents automatically engage when in their normal sheet arresting position. 50

Referring to the drawings l, 2 indicate the opposite side Walls of the frame or casing of the machine with the bottom 3 and opposite end walls represented as formed or made up of a single sheet of metal. 'Ihe casing furnishes a com- 55 partment for a supply pack of paper 4 in strip form and of a plural number of strips appropriately folded in zigzag arrangement in accordance with one of the methods employed for packaging the paper supply for machines of this class; or the paper supply may be packed in rolls, the rolls mounted and journalled. upon holders within the casing or Xed to the side walls of the casing, or the paper furnished in any other ,mannerA with the packed form` as illustrated, at present being preferable by the trade.

In the drawings, the machine is illustrated as loaded with a triplicate number of strips, the third strip of the series, as a record strip, being fed, after making the proper entries thereon, into a record compartment of the casing and re-folded into a pack. As the paper supply for autographic registers or manifolding machines in the packet or other methods of packaging, is a well known commodity in which the strips generally are punched with ling apertures at denite sp-acing apart longitudinally of the strips and the apertures utilized for bringing and maintaining the several sheets or strips in registry and alignment upon the writing table and also for cooperation with strip feeding and arresting mechanism, an extended explanation of such well known features need not be made herein.

The casing at the top` for a portion of its length in the particular style of machine herewith illustrated, isequipped with a writing table 5 which can be either removed or elevated for access into the supply compartment. The strips are drawn from the supply compartment beneath the table over a roller 6 journalled in the side walls of the casing and thence over and upon the writing table in superpose'd relation. A margin frame I either hingedly or removably secured to the top of the casing extends over the writing table and spaced therefrom over-- Vlying the manifolding strips.

l feed roller and other parts of the strip feeding or extracting mechanism. A cross bar 9 riveted to the wall 8 has its end dowelled for rigid connection with the side walls; while the lower edge of the partition wall is angle hanged for securing the same to the bottom of the casing..

Y Similarly as disclosed in the aforesaid patent, the machine is provided with a swinging carrier or leaf I0 hingedly mounted upon a rod II extending across the base of the casing and sup-V ported within a pair of lugs I2 formed at an angle integral with the angle ange of the par tition Wall. I

The swinging carrier or leaf ID provides -a hinged support for a pair of pins I3-I3, each end of the spring engaged with a clip I9 stamped Y from the body of the slide plate (see Figures 3 and 7); The slide plate with its pins I3, as a unit, is therefore yieldingly depressible upon the carrier enabling the pins to automatically snap into or enter through the perforations in the paper strips upon the table when the apertures therein are brought in registry with the pins.

The carrier and slide plate normally are locked in a vertical position parallel with and to the Wall 8 so that the pins when engaged through the aperture in the strips hold the same against displacement upon the writing table. In the normal position of the carrier, the slide plate with its pins in one stage of operationas-during period of manually withdrawing the strips, is yieldingly sustained with the pins under tension bearing against the under side of the lower strip of the series ready to snap or enter the apertures in the strips when brought into registry therewith.

The pins in entering the apertures relatively aligning the several strips and automatically arresting the strip Ywithdrawal for a length governed by the aperture spacing longitudinally of the strips.

The carrier and slide plate, as a unit, are locked to the partition wall 8 through aV hand lever 2D pivoted upon the wall S by means of a hook latch 2l pivotally mounted upon a lug 22 extending or bent at an angle from the upper end of the carrier with the edge 23 of the carrier beneath the latch serving to limit the downward swing of the latch (see Figure 13).

The latch engages with the hand lever when the lever is in its normal idle position and is released upon depressing the hand lever. The upward stroke of the hand lever is limited by a hook shaped lug 24 punched or bent at an angle from the partition wall 3 (see Figures 3 and 9), with the hook portion of the lug 24 serving to hold the hand lever against lateral play, likewise the carrier and slide plate against vibration while latched.

A spring 25 at one end xed to the wall 8 and its opposite end to the hand lever 20 is employed for normalizing the lever after depressed and released by the operator and similarly the swinging carrier IIJ is normalized by a spring 26 (see Figure 10) having one end clipped or fixed to the carrier and the opposite end to the partition wall 8. Y

The hand lever 20 is provided with a laterally extended lug or tongue 2T engageable in depressing the lever with an inclined tongue or camV 28 stamped from the carrier for swinging the provide for a denite length of swinging stroke of the carrier with the free end of the tongue extending downwardly so as to continue engagement with the lug 2l of the hand lever, to hold the carrier against retreat, While the hand lever depression is continued for engagement with a lug 3l?. The lug Si) is formed to extend at an angle from the rear side of the slide plate and through an opening in the carrier intersecting the lug 2l of the hand lever for conu necting the slide plate with the hand lever for depressing the slide plate to disengage the pins from the apertures in the paper strips at the end of a paper feeding stroke of the carrier. The slide plate when depressed is held or locked in its retreat position by a spring latch consisting of a spring metal blade 3l having its lower end fixed to the outer side of the slide plate and its opposite end provided with a laterally extended pin or bolt 32 engaged through an aperture in the slide plate and adapted to snap into a registering aperture 33 in the carrier as shown in Figures l0, 11, and 14.

The slide plate is unlatched in a return stroke of the carrier, the latch pin 32 striking a lug 34 extending from the wall 5 under a pressure of the carrier normalizing spring thus forcing the pin from the aperture in the carrier allowing the slide plate to be retracted by the spring i8 which yieldingly urges the pins against the underside of the lowermost strip of the series for subsequently engaging with a pair of apertures in the strip when moved into registry therewith.

Insofar as described, the function and operation of the mechanism is similar to that disclosed in the aforesaid patent, in which the form lengths of all of the strips are extracted or issued from the machine. In the machine of the present invention, one of the strips of the series as the lowermost thereof, designated as a record strip, is fed for a redeposit in the machine casing and into a record compartment 35 thereof.

The paper strips being scored or weakened along the lines of fold in preparing the same for at packaging and folded into zigzag arrangement, conditions the strip or makes it susceptible for self-refolding as it is fed `into the record compartment against an abutment or wall 36 for squaring the folded edges.

The feed or transmitting motion o the record strip is administered through the traction between the several sheets and with a roller 3? therebeneath, the roller frictionally contacting with the lowermost sheet and yieldingly compressing the same against the cross bar at the forward end of the margin frame. The roller 3l is journalled in a slide bracket 38 slidably mounted upon the upper end of the partition wall 8. The roller is compressibly moved against the strips of paper under the tension of spring 25 when the bracket 38 is engaged by the hand lever 2d. A stud 39 laterally extends from the hand lever 26 for engaging the lower edge of an off-set end of the bracket 38. The roller compresses the paper strips against a longitudinal boss 4] depressed from the cross bar of the margin frame.

The bracket 38 is slidably secured to the wall 8 by a screw 4I engaged through an elongated slot 42 in the bracket and by a T-lug 43 pro jecting from the wall 8 and straddling a notch 44 in the bracket 38. When the hand lever 2t) is depressed the bracket with its roller descends by gravity retreating below the plane of the guiding table and thus is released from its contact with the strips, and remains free therefrom dur- Iing the period of mechanically extracting the sheets.

The pins I3 likewise when engaged through 5 the apertures in the strips extend through notches or openings in the forward end of the writing table and when depressed are brought below the frame oi the writing table.

The forward end of the writing table is curved l0. downwardly for guiding and directly the record strips into the record compartment 35 and the record strip is also guided downwardly by a curved guard 45 as a cross wall portion of a cover or top for the record compartment which is either 15 removably or hingedly mounted upon the casing. A pendant 4t consisting of a piece of wire bent to V form with its opposite ends pivotally secured to the under side of the cover of the record compartment, aids in the refold of the 2U record strip which is fed in the record compartment.

The casing along one side of the writing table is provided with the usual compartment 4'? for holding a supply of carbon or manifolding paper 25 which is distributed transversely over the writing table or platen between the several strips and clamped by the margin frame. The rear end of the writing table is slightly depressed or ofiset and provided with means for projecting the 30 approaching edge of the carbon strips against injury through the pulling traverse of the paper strips in the withdrawal thereof. The protectors for each carbon strip consist of a pair of leaves suitably anchored and overlapping the edge of 35' the carbon strip.

In operating the machine the paper strips are initially passed longitudinally over the platen or writing table, and adjusted so that the perforations of the several strips are in registry and 40 engaged over the pins I3. The margin frame in loading the machine is swung up or removed for free access to the strips, pins, and other parts and to thread or record the strip downwardly between the roller 31 and cross wall or guard 45, 45 thus following the general steps in the method of loading machines of this character.

For simultaneously advancing the several strips mechanically to protect the forward end of those of the series which'are to be issued from the 50 machine for hand gravity by the operator to mechanically continue the withdrawal and simultaneously therewith feed the record strip in the record compartment, the hand lever 20 is depressed by the operator to its full limit of 55 stroke, and then immediately released. The downward or depressing movement of the hand lever disconnects the hand lever from the hook latch 2l, releasing the swinging carrier IIJ. The hand lever engages with the inclined cam or 60 tongue 28 of the carrier swinging the carrier and its pin carrying slide plate as a unit forwardly, conveying the paper strips therewith to the limit of the forward swing of the carrier. The hand lever'in its continued downward stroke sequentially after the carrier has been swung to the desired degree connects with the slide plate I5 through its interception with the laterally extended lug 30 of the slide plate depressing the 70 slide plate and thereby withdrawing the pins from the apertures in the paper strip, bringing the pins below the plane of the writing table and locked in such retreat position together with the slide plate by the spring latch 3|, the lock pin 75 32 of the spring latch engaging into an aperture in the carrier.

Immediately upon release of the hand leverafter it has been fully depressed, the actuated parts will be automatically restored to their normal positions and the roller 31 urged against the strips through the engagement of the hand lever with the roller supporting bracket 38. The roller preferably has a yielding surface or periphery being formed of rubber so as to revolve under the traction with the lowermost strip of the series and traction between the several strips of the series so that the record strip will be correspondingly advanced as the upper strips of the seres are manually withdrawn and until their withdrawal is stopped by the pins engaging with a successive set of apertures therein.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1.V In a machine of the class described, a casing having a writing table for supporting one or a plurality of strips fed from a supply compartment in the casing, the strips when in a plural number being in a superposed arrangement upon the table and each provided with longitudinally disposed and determinately spaced aligning apertures, depressible pins located at the forward end of the writing table and at an angle thereto engaging the strip through the apertures thereof, a swinging frame supporting said pins and moving the pins forward to advance the strip, a depressible hand lever for swinging the frame and depressing the pins at the end of a forward stroke to disconnect the pins from the strips, a latch carried by said swinging frame for locking the pins in a depressed position, and means for automatically tripping said latch at the end of a retreat stroke of said swinging frame for releasing the locked pins.

2. In a machine of the class described, a casing having a writing table for supporting one or a plurality of strips fed from a'supply compart- 'rnent in the casing, the strips when in a plural Vforward end of the writing table and at an angle thereto engaging the strip through the apertures thereof, a swinging frame supporting said pins and moving the pins forward to advance the strip, hand operated means for swinging the frame and depressing the pins at the end of a forward stroke to disconnect the pins from the strips, locking means for holding the pins in a depressed position during the retreat stroke of said swinging frame and means for auto- 5A apertures in the stationery for limiting the 15A manual withdrawal of the stationery and initiating the feed of the stationery, a roller disposed at the front end of the platen for pressing the stationery against a front margin Vof the Vmargin frame for transmitting a feeding action 2()` of one strip toy another so that the withdrawal of an issuing strip will cause a record strip to be propelled into Ythe record compartment, a bracket supported within the casing movable laterally to the platen for journalling said roller, 25.

and a spring urged lever normally engaging said bracket for yieldingly urging the roller against said margin frame and depressible for actuating said feeding mechanism and releasing said roller.

4. In a register, a casing provided with a 30 platen over which a plurality of continuous form strips may be disposed and a record compartment below the plane of the platen, a margin frame for said casing over the platen and stationery, means for feeding the stationery to ad- 35 VVance its forward edge beyond the margin frame for manual grasp, a roller disposed at the front Vend of the platen for pressing the stationery against a Vfront margin of the margin frame for transmitting a feeding action of one strip to 40 another so that the withdrawal of an issuing strip will cause a record strip to be propelled into the record compartment, a bracket supported within the casing movable laterally to the platen for journalling said roller, and a spring urged 45 lever normally engaging the bracket for yieldingly urging the roller against said margin frame and depressible for actuating said feeding means and releasing said roller.

FRITZ G. VDIESBACH. 

